Texan musician Johnny Dowd is travelling across European with Melle de Boer on the Going Down the Road Feeling Bad Tour, including Canning Circus pub The Running Horse. Here's all you need to know about Dowd.

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Tell us where you're from, where you are now and a bit about the journey in between.

I was born in a log cabin in Fort Worth, Texas, a hundred years ago, then moved to Memphis, Tennessee, then to Pauls Valley, Oklahoma, left there when I was 16 and drifted from place to place, settling in Ithaca, New York where I've been for the last 30 years.

Your music is... unusual - how would you describe it?

Slightly unusual sounds about right. Old ideas dressed up in new sounds - lipstick on a pig.